Vector control: state agencies.

Existing law, the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law, authorizes the establishment of mosquito abatement and vector control districts governed by a board of trustees. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to certify government agency employees and pest abatement district employees who handle, apply, or supervise the use of pesticides as vector control technicians. It also requires the department to establish minimum standards for continuing education for any government agency employee so certified. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into a cooperative agreement with any local district or other public agency engaged in the work of controlling mosquitoes, gnats, flies, other insects, rodents, or other vectors and pests of public health importance, in areas and under terms, conditions, and specifications as the State Public Health Officer may prescribe. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, requires any state or local agency responding to an outbreak of West Nile virus or other mosquito-borne disease with an abatement and surveillance program to contract with a local mosquito and vector control agency that is party to the cooperative agreement or to consult directly with the department to ensure that the outbreak response is supervised appropriately and conducted by licensed personnel using sound integrated mosquito management techniques. Existing law requires each state agency to annually make a review of all proprietary state lands, except as specified, over which it has jurisdiction to determine what, if any, land is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report thereon in writing to the Department of General Services. It also requires jurisdiction of all land reported as excess to be transferred to the Department of General Services, when requested by the director of the reporting agency, for sale or disposition. This bill would require, with respect to any land that is acquired by the state on and after January 1, 2011, that the acquiring state agency take specified actions with regard to mosquito control on state properties, as described in the June 2008 Best Management Practices for Mosquito Control on California State Properties prepared by the State Department of Public Health.